Oil burner



Nov. 4, 1924. n 1,514,456

G. ll... GOULD O I-L BURNER Filed Feb. 10 1922 Patented Nev. 4, 1924. j

GEORGE LEWIS GOULD, OF PLAIN DEALNG, LOUISIANA.

OIL BURNER.

Application led February 10, 1922. Serial No. 535,537.

To all whom t may concern.' supply the fuel either under pressure or by Be it lrnown that Geenen Lnwis GoULD, gravity. y 45 a citizen of the United States of America, A screen 20 is preferably used at the air residing at Plain Dealing, in the parish of inlet end of the feed passage 16 through 5 Bossier and State of Louisiana, has invented which the air is inducted by the suction new and useful Improvements in Oil Burnproduced by the injector. Moreover as will ers, of which the following is aspecication. be obvious the effect of the injector is to 50 The object of the invention is to provide a draw the fuel by suction through the feed simple and efficient construction of burner tube 18 and cause an admixture thereof with l0 adapted for use in the consumption of crude the air introduced at the inlet 17 and the oil and adapted for effecting an economical steam furnished by the injector to present use thereof; and with this object in view the fuel in a highly combustible condition 55 the invention consists in a construction and at the outlet of the burner tube. combination of parts of which a preferred It will be obvious that owingto the siml5 embodiment is shown in the accompanying plicity and compactness of the construction drawings, wherein of the device it may be manufactured at a Figure 1 is a sectional view of a burner relatively small cost and maintained in op- GO embodying the invention. erative condition without difliculty or like- Figures 2, 3 and 4 are detail sectional lihood of clogging and in the event that l0 views respectively on the lines 2-2, 3-3 cleaning should be necessary the parts and 4 4 of lfigure thereof can readily be disconnected and ex- The burner consists essentially of a globe posed throughout for that purpose. y 65 10 forming a mixing chamber 11 from which Having described the invention, what is extends a burner tube 12 preferably inteclaimed as new and useful is riorly rifled or spirally grooved as a means A crude oil burner having a globular mixof securing a more effective mixture of the ing chamber provided with a radially exfuel and air; an injector 13 disposed diamettending burner tube and with a depending 70 rically in the mixing chamber in communlfeed tube disposed substantially at right cation with a supply pipe 14 leading from angles to the burner tube, an injection nozzle :3.) any suitable or convenient source of steam disposed within and in diametrical relation or air under pressure, said injector having with the mixing chamber and in axial aligna reduced nozzle or nipple 15 which proment with the burner tube, a fuel feed tube 75 jects slightly into the inner end of the burner extending into the said feed tube and of tube 12; a feed passage 16 formed by a tube reduced diameter as compared to the lattery extending radially from the globe 10 and to provide an intervening space between it open at its outer end for the admission of and the said feed tube, to provide an air air as indicated at 17, and a fuel feed tube inlet at the lower end of the feed tube and S0 18 of smaller diameter than the feed tube around the fuel feed tube, and a screen covand extending into the open outer end of ering the open lower end of the feed tube the latter and in alignment therewith, said around the fuel feed tube,

fuel feed tube being in communication with In testimony whereof he aflixes his signaa fuel supply pipe 19 leading from any suitture. K

able source (not shown) and adapted to GEORGE LEWS GOULD. 

